Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Dec 9, 2009, 1:44 pm
Weeeee. Well, winter arrived today.   Blizzard warning, 14-16 inches of snow, whiteout conditions. Pretty sweet storm.   This is what it looked like on the drive in   Drive to work w...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Dec 7, 2009, 2:52 pm
I really hope Sunday wasn’t the last nice, snowfree, weekend day of the year, but with 8 to 12 inches of snow on the way it very well could have been.   At least we got out and had some fun rid...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Dec 5, 2009, 2:25 pm
For better or worse, there’s nothing quite like riding when it’s 20 degrees.   I’m not complaining, I was just happy to get in 37 miles of riding Saturday which is the latest (and first tim...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Nov 30, 2009, 2:38 pm
Brrrr. That was brisk. Mark Schindel and I hopped out for a 47-mile road ride today (Monday) that featured a challenging headwind on the way out and temps in the high 30s. While this will seem ...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Nov 27, 2009, 9:02 am
I’m not sure what the highlight of (the inaugural) TurkeyCross ’09 was: the 35-min race with a field of eight people or  giving those 8 people (plus spectators)  their “prize” beer hand-up a...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Nov 25, 2009, 8:30 am
A short video from Sunday's event.   Have a Happy Thanksgiving!  
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Nov 23, 2009, 9:17 am
30-min (38 min) cyclocross race Hales Corners, Wisc. 11/22/09   And thus ends the 2009 racing season.   What started on a cold, gray, day in Illionis back in March, ended 8 months later on...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Nov 19, 2009, 10:57 am
Only real excitement this week was finishing up and posting a short doc I made from the CX last weekend and some video I shot earlier this fall. It captures some of the mayhem of the sport pretty well...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Nov 15, 2009, 8:32 am
30-min (ended up being 42-min) Cyclocross race Glendale, Wisc. 11/14/09   I finally had a ride I was happy with Saturday at Kletzsch Park in Glendale (just outside Milwaukee) during the CX rac...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Nov 12, 2009, 8:55 am
Julie said my last blog was “boring.”   Sheesh, what does she want a three-ring circus of flaming monkeys? I’m afraid this one won't thrill her either, but what can I say, it’s that t...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Nov 8, 2009, 7:45 pm
That’s the kind of weekend that makes you realize how much fun this sport can be. Twenty seven miles on the road Saturday morning, then another 36 Sunday followed by 20 miles of mountain biking i...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Nov 5, 2009, 8:56 am
With only three (maybe four) more weekends of racing left for the team, I put together a pair of season wrap up videos. One is a 4 min. version for our sponsors and the other is a “directors cut” ...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Nov 1, 2009, 10:28 am
30-min cyclocross race Milwaukee, Wisc. 10/31/09   It’s pretty hard to not have fun when you’re hanging around a couple hundred cyclocross racers on Halloween day -- and a good number of t...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Oct 29, 2009, 9:08 am
The end of daylight savings Saturday night pretty much spells the end of riding after work and the return to the spin bike in the basement and Netflix movies next week (which, due to rain, I’ve alr...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Oct 25, 2009, 11:07 am
Somewhere near the top of the road up Rib Mountain (this is a mountain by Wisc. standards) yellow leaves began to be topped by white fluffy snow. While there wasn’t a lot of it, it was still snow. ...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Oct 22, 2009, 8:36 am
Talk about a crappy week for riding. Looks like rain will keep me off the roads until Saturday when I head to Wausau for a ride with teammates (and even Saturday’s forecast has a chance of rain and ...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Oct 19, 2009, 8:37 am
30-Min. cyclocross race Centuria Wisc. & Hudson, Wisc. 10/17 & 10/18/09   Nice weekend of racing with a pair of cyclocross races in extreme western Wisconsin. I think I can pretty much sum...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Oct 15, 2009, 9:10 am
I’ve been pretty lucky this year with mechanicals.   I had a few issues early in the season, but nothing major. Heck, I’m still running the same front tire on my road bike I had at the star...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Oct 12, 2009, 9:17 am
17.5-mile mountain bike race Sheboygan, Wisc. 10/11/09 It’s amazing to me how much different a mountain bike race course looks when you are actually racing it. Downhill sections don’t seem as...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Oct 8, 2009, 10:18 am
It’s been a pretty light week on the bike.   Mark Schindel and I pre-rode the Sheboygan course  Monday in prep for Sunday’s WORS race. I’m glad we did. I have an idea of what to expect and...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Oct 4, 2009, 6:22 pm
12-hour (team) mountin bike race Merrill, Wisc. 10/3/09   Saturday’s 12-hour (team) mountain bike race near Merrill added about four chapters to my ever increasing library of “how to ride ...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Oct 1, 2009, 8:49 am
Oh sunlight our good friend, where are you going?   Is there another hemisphere you need to warm? We enjoy you and you provide us time to ride.   Your departure is depressing as 35-mile week...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Sep 27, 2009, 3:38 pm
17-mile individual time trial 35-mile road race (18-mile RR for women) Waumandee, Wisc. 9/26/09 As usual the WiSport Worlds provided a fitting ending to the 2009 road race season Saturday with...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Sep 24, 2009, 9:20 am
Wednesday night’s GB CX left me with a big smile. It went well and I had a lot of fun.   We had six riders show up and the session stayed focused on riding. There was a little instruction for R...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Sep 20, 2009, 4:39 pm
I think I got the most out of this weekend -- talk about action packed. I drove up to the Duluth area Friday night to attend the wedding of two teammates on Saturday. We rolled out of bed around 5:...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Sep 17, 2009, 9:07 am
We pulled off the second iteration of Wednesday Night CX in Green Bay last night. Had a few more people and added a little bit to the course to include some sand and a soft-dirt hill to ride or use as...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Sep 10, 2009, 11:03 am
Snuck in a little ‘cross practice in Green Bay last night.   We used a mix of wooded trails and open fields marked with small flags (marking out a course on open ground without tape is sorta t...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Sep 8, 2009, 9:08 am
With no racing on schedule this weekend (the first weekend as such since April 11) it was time for two days off the bike (after a nice, mellow, 30-some-mile ride on Saturday).   So what did we d...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Sep 3, 2009, 11:22 am
Among other things that have happened this racing season, both Julie and I broke our previous top-speed records — and they both happened in the same race at Mauston.   I was reminded of this S...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Aug 31, 2009, 10:30 am
54-mile Road Race Henderson, Minn 8/30/09   Now that was fun. Four of us (Phelps, Mike Buelter, Chris Mueller and Jeff Colbeth) set off to the Minnesota State Road race in Henderson Sunday wit...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Aug 23, 2009, 8:25 am
10.1-mile individual time trial Cottage Grove, Wisc. 8/22/09   It may only been 10.1 miles, but the modified course at the Kirke Vei TT in Cottage Grove is a nasty little course compared to wh...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Aug 20, 2009, 10:55 pm
(As promised, J returns with another blog this week...) So we have acquired an unofficial mascot. The rubber chicken. Pronounced roo-bar chee-kin, (don’t ask what kind of accent it is, as...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Aug 16, 2009, 6:41 pm
28-mile road race Mauston, Wisc. 8/15/09 (Ed note: This week we hand the reigns over to the better speller guy in the family. She good right, so me give heer kees)   Guess what everyone! J th...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Aug 13, 2009, 3:27 pm
Ok, so there’s still more than month left in the road racing season, but I’d be lying if I said I haven’t looked at the Minn. and Wisc. cyclocross schedules with some anticipation. But really, t...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Aug 8, 2009, 10:14 pm
21-mile road race Belleville, Wisc. 8/8/09 Julie earned some new bragging rights Saturday: she beat me in a road race. Not by a little, but by a lot.. 2 min or so. She’s been racing well...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Aug 5, 2009, 11:35 pm
We got Julie’s new wheels on her bike this week (gotta give props to Ritchey, County Cycles in Roseville, Minn,, and theBike Hub in De Pere for making all this happen in one way or another). Fran...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Aug 2, 2009, 9:45 am
30-mile road race Grand View, Wisc. 8/1/09 Talk but highs and lows in the span of just a few hours. Julie and I decided to do the smaller 30-mile race at Firehouse this year rather than the "Big Boy...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Jul 31, 2009, 1:44 pm
A few miscellaneous photos from the last month or so… I may edit a short video from 24/9 next week as well, Just havent had time to mess around with that this summer (photos have sorta taken center�...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Jul 27, 2009, 10:05 am
24-hour cross-country mountian bike race (4-man team) Wausau, Wisc 7/25 and 7/26/09   Technically hard but fun: that seems to sum up the riding at 24-Hours of Nine mile Saturday and Sunday.   ...
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Nate P. posted an article on Porkchopwi - Jul 23, 2009, 10:16 am
Ok folks, off for an all new adventure this weekend in Wausau. Any bets on how many times this roadie will take a digger on the course this weekend?   If you get bored — or are actually inter...
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